When Swedish metal icons Meshuggah unleashed their mighty, low down, single-string riffs on Nothing in 2002, the meaning of the word heavy was henceforth redefined. From then, the 8-string guitar ...

Needless to say, his bass tone is gigantic, with a search for the perfect set-up culminating in a highly-customised Ibanez 6-string/8-string double-neck bass guitar, built in 2015.

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Dream Theater are hard at work on a new album and after revealing plans last year, John Petrucci has confirmed he's using the opportunity to put a signature Music Man Majesty eight-string guitar ...

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With Chic, bassist Bernard Edwards brought a new sophistication to late-'70s disco with hits like Le Freak and Good Times, ...

In 2022, ZZ Top guitar tech-turned-bassist Francis Elwood made headlines throughout the guitar press and beyond when he whipped out an almighty 17-string bass guitar with the Texas blues-rock ...

The bass in Francis' hands wasn't a 4-string or a 5-string bass guitar, nor was it a 6-string model. No, readers, this yellow-finished low-end behemoth was a (by our count, at least) 17-string bass.

ZZ Top bassist Elwood Francis has now explained why he whipped out a massive 17-string bass guitar onstage with the long-running classic rock band last week.

Rare handmade Slovakian guitar returned to owner three years after it was stolen The difficult to find guitar is a Neuser five-string bass guitar that is no longer in production ...

Dusty Hill, the longtime bassist for Texas boogie-rockers supreme ZZ Top, died last year at age 72. But the band has carried on without him, with longtime guitar tech Elwood Francis taking over on ...

24 STRINGS!!! Everyone on the Internet loves a good, spirited argument, and in the metal musician community nothing seems to get feathers ruffled these days like the very mention of 8- and 9-string ...